People used to tell jokes. In my parents circle, jokes were part of the common language and were shared like gossip and recipes on the phone, over cake and coffee, at the grocery store. My favorite story of theirs was actually a meta joke that referred to a group much like themselves who assigned a number to each of their gags. If they were sitting arou…
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